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MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard
campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering
in New Zealand.
1. Care of Children Bill—Parental Responsibility Question No. 2 to Minister 2. Prisoners—Human Rights 3. Community
Safety—Policing 4. Employment Relations Act—Unions 5. Work and Income—Job Partnerships 6. Employment Relations
Act—Individual Agreements 7. Ministers—Confidence
Amnesty International is horrified by recent reports, including video evidence and witness testimony, of an attack by
Lao soldiers against a group of five children, four of them girls, in the Xaisomboune military zone on 19 May 2004.
United Nations humanitarian agencies are accelerating the deployment of staff and emergency kits to the Caribbean, where
Hurricane Ivan - the latest in a series of tropical storms to strike the region this season - is already wreaking deadly
havoc.
Scoop has received a response to an Official Information Act request detailing the till now secret ingredients contained
in the blue spray used by police in aerial spraying campaigns against cannabis plantations.
The NZ Association of Rationalists and Humanists is urging the Government to tell the Pope to stay out of New Zealand's
business.
1. Dr DON BRASH to the Prime Minister: Is she satisfied with the performance of her Acting Minister of Justice who
yesterday rejected a National Party offer to facilitate urgent legislation removing the entitlement of prisoners to
compensation from the ...
This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood,
no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world.
Two General Courts Martial are to be held at Trentham Military Camp on Thursday 16 September and Friday 17 September
2004 to try two officers on charges of prejudicing service discipline. The charges relate to unauthorised discharges of
their weapons.
One of the reasons a great many people, policy makers and leaders find it impossible to face the issue of peak oil is
because it challenges the very beliefs that we argue are a priori truths about industrialised western societies, without
requirement for ...
Genesis Energy Chief Executive, Murray Jackson momentarily swopped his “captain of industry hat” for a toreador’s
montera this week assisted by opera star, Jessie Raven (pictured). Miss Raven who performs the title role in the
upcoming Genesis ...
The Lord of the Ring's stars come face to face with themselves on the side of Air NZ planes as they bid New Zealand
goodbye at Wellington Airport before boarding the Air New Zealand 767 emblazoned with giant images of the characters
Aragorn and Arwen.
A couple of guest posts today. I would recommend putting some time aside to read Dave McArthur's essay, which advances
the view that we're steadily moving further away from what a modern electricity network ought to be.
Christchurch Animal Action will be out on the streets during Daffodil Day, encouraging members of the public to not
flush half their donation down the toilet.
MR. RUSSERT: Let me show you the results of a poll by a group called GlobeScan and the University of Maryland. It said
the following, ''World opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of John Kerry to win the U.S. presidential election, according
to a poll ...
Roger Kerr Address: Meat Industry Association 2004 Annual Conference Building Prosperity: Opportunities And Threats
Genesis Energy has just had resource consent for its proposed Awhitu Windfarm turned down by planning commissioners
appointed by the Franklin District Council. The proposal involved the construction of 19 wind turbines at Awhitu on the
coast south of the ...
Includes Images: On Saturday I went from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to visit some of the holy sites there. I had finished
volunteering for ISM and wanted to play tourist for a day. I caught a Palestinian service taxi to get there.
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in
writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces
a world exclusive and a bold ...
ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide today accused Maori Party Co-Leader Dr Pita Sharples of talking double-speak in
claiming that the Maori Party was for all New Zealanders.
In spite of the support given by Mayor John Banks to the possibility of workers striking at Hubbards Cereal factory in
Mangere, the Service & Food Workers' Union (SFWU) are happy to announce that management’s latest offer for a pay increase in ...
Seoul, September 13, 2004 - As new evidence reveals that uranium enrichment experiments in South Korea have been
assisted by laboratories in the United States and Russia, Greenpeace is calling for an immediate end to international
collaboration on plutonium ...
The release of a discussion paper will assist with plans to develop trans-Tasman guidelines on GM-labelling by early
next year.
The Government has announced a comprehensive package of measures designed to improve the working of the Resource
Management Act (RMA).
Hurricane Ivan, now Category 5, has strengthened markedly over the last 24 hours and is bearing down on Jamaica where
500,000 people have been urged to evacuate from low lying areas of the Island group. On its way towards Jamaica Ivan
clobbered the ...
ihug, is continuing its crusade to provide cheaper, faster internet service to Kiwis with the introduction of bliink, a
new broadband service for both residential and business customers across New Zealand.
ACT New Zealand representative on the Select Committee hearing the Foreshore and Seabed Bill Ken Shirley to supported
the actions of Chairman Russell Fairbrother in invoking a trespass order and effectively banning submitter H T Rikihana
from ...
The tragic milestone of 1,000 U.S. deaths in the Iraqi quagmire should cause introspection about why the United States
really went to war and whether it has been worth it. While the Bush administration’s public justifications never really
added up, evidence ...
Concerned artists donning former American president masks will protest at this year's Radio Active Handle the Jandal
competition.
MR. MOHAMMED: Mr. Secretary, thank you for taking the time to speak to us today.
ENDS